Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe
By: Leon M. Lederman
4.01
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-acce…
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1. The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?
By: Victor J. Stenger
4.22
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
For those fascinated by how physics explains the universe and affects philosophy, this in-depth pre… read more
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2. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
By: Dennis E. Taylor
4.28
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and… read more
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"Above my pay grade!"-Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
"Thank God for family. And than GOD for a couple of miles of distance."-Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
"Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'."-Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
3. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss
3.94
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more
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- nonfiction
- popular science
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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
4. Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe
By: Lawrence M. Krauss
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Will the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
By: Roger Crowley
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to … read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
By: Brian Greene
4.13
Format: 569 pages, Paperback
The fabric of the cosmos read more
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"life"-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
"наша история прошлого часто лишь информирует о наших переживаниях в настоящем."-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
"полная скорость движения любого объекта в пространстве и во времени всегда в точности равна скорости света."-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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- nonfiction
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
8. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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- nonfiction
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
9. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
By: Lee Smolin , Henry Reich
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
One of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals offers a radical new view of the nature of ti… read more
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- nonfiction
- popular science
- astronomy
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10. The Little Book of String Theory
By: Steven S. Gubser
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"The Little Book of String Theory" offers a short, accessible, and entertaining introduction to one… read more
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- popular science
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11. Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
By: Lisa Randall
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier t… read more
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12. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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13. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
By: Brian Greene
4.09
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more
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- mathematics
- nonfiction
- popular science
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"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
14. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more
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15. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Pr… read more
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16. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
By: Steven Weinberg
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general… read more
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17. Four Laws That Drive the Universe
By: Peter Atkins
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
The laws of thermodynamics drive everything that happens in the universe. From the sudden expansion… read more
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18. The Quantum Quark
By: None
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory explaining the strong nuclear force that binds together th… read more
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19. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
By: Dan Jones
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it int… read more
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20. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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21. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By: Sean Carroll
4.07
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist a… read more
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- quantum mechanics
- nonfiction
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"Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"As far as quantum field theory is concerned, a human being or the center of a star isn’t all that different from empty space."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"The enigma at the heart of quantum reality can be summed up in a single motto: what we see when we look at the world seems to be fundamentally different from what actually is."-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
"If there were some nefarious conspiracy to make the world look quantum-mechanical, it had to have been set up hundreds of years ago, when the light left those stars. It's possible, but doesn't seem l…"-Sean Carroll, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
22. Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
By: Paul Sen
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understan… read more
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23. Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
By: Matt Strassler
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, sh… read more
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24. Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe
By: Leon M. Lederman
4.01
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-acce… read more
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25. A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes Towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity
By: Peter Collier
4.15
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Teach yourself the mathematics of relativity – THE AMAZON BESTSELLER To really understand Einstein'… read more
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26. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
